Peter Edelman Talks Poverty on the Colbert Report

Stephen Colbert took on a new report by the Heritage Foundation, which suggests that America’s poor families are not really poor because they have appliances and Xboxes:

 

Peter Edelman, anti-poverty advocate and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, goes toe-to-toe with Colbert in the next segment about the importance of anti-poverty programs like Food Stamps: